The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-01-13
The famous living skelleon' died at

Gen, Sherman is said to have a fear
that he will be the next of the war he.
roes to die.
A Canadian tug ON Lake Ontario
was seized and fined for towing in
American waters.
The public debt was reduced over
$9,OOO,0O0 during December. The
taxes were reduced O.
The periodical shake in south Car
oiina was supplemented by an earth
quake at Paige, Texas.
The number OF deaths caused by the
disaster on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad appears to be Mt least thir.
teen.
Munkacsy did not visit Boston
while in. this country and the papers
OF that city are still talking of "the
slight"
One more effort is to be made to
save Cluverius, the Virginia murderer.
This time the claim is that his trial
was unfair.
Whittier has just finished a long
historical poem. Whittier is one Of
the poets whose muse has not desert
ed him in age.
Mrs. Ducy Sweet Barber of Alfred
Center, who went to the polls and vot.
ed in the late election has been arrest
ed for the act.
Professor Tossos and Italian musi-
clan, who composed "The Arkansas
Traveller" died last Thursday at Gov.
lngton, KY aged So.
An explosion of natural gas at
Youngstown, Ohio, caused a fire with
loss of 100000 and the supposed
loss of a human life.
The surgeons who have successfully
removed the section of mans back.
bone should be induced to practice
upon the present winter.
Three boys killed, several fatally
hurt and others more or less injured
is the result of coasting accidents re.
ported one day in New York.
An expected rising in chihuahua,
Mex, has led the national government
TO concentrate several thousand troops
suspiciously near the Rio Grande.
Boston is shivering in apprehension
OF the arrival Of Sam Jones in that
city OH Sunday, one week earlier than
his show was advertised to appear.
There are at least half-dozen rea-
sons for believing that if Senator
Jones can get the girl, he will tell the
Florida Legislature to elect whom
they please.
Hans Hanson, of Pipestone County,
Mimi, has a daughter, twelve years
old, who has ploughed 112 acres of his
farm for him. Where is the dude who
could do that.
Says Gath" in the Cincinnati En-.
qafrer' Some friends who were at
Cleyeland's New Years reception tell
me that the President had the look Of
man with the kidney disease"
Wall street holders of $5o,OOo,OOO de-
iaulted Southern State bonds are en-
deavoring to have the government en-
force the payment OF the $4,OO0OOo Of
such bonds held in trust for Indian
tribes.
John West, colored, who. in his
time had been slave, doctor, and a
preacher, and who was the oldest man
in Hunterdon county, died at Lam
oertyille, N. j., recently, aged 97
years. He was born at Raleigh.
The divorced wife of Ex-senator
Fair, TO whom the courts gave four
millions and half from her ex-hus.
bands estate, cannot find places
enough for the interest on her money
and is rapidly adding to that sum.
In Chicago are two or three women
who earn a living bp making button
holes Tor other women who have neith-
er the patience nor skill to do this
branch OF sewing. They charge 25
cents dozen, and can earn from 81 to
$l50 day.
One of the very commendable
traits OF Logan's character was that
he never was known to ask any favors
OF this Administration. He believed
that by defeat the rights of the Repub-
licans to the offices were forfeited.
This is in strange contrast with too
many Of his conireres.